Tourism as a right: a “frivolous claim” against degrowth?

Gascón, Jordi

doi:10.1080/09669582.2019.1666858

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“…1 The current political turmoil that partly resulted from the recent upsurge in refugees and migrant movement, underpins the widespread consensus amongst rich states regarding the 'need' to reduce historically high levels of immigration (Prince 2010). The discursive framing of certain mobilities as 'problematic' in the light of such unevenly distributed mobility rights raises serious questions, particularly when juxtaposed against the political imperative to ensure the continued growth and expansion of tourism espoused by governments, industry and international institutions (Gascón 2019). Nevertheless, while the rights equated with participation in tourism are envisaged as akin to human rights (see UNWTO 2017), in practice they remain unevenly distributed, ambiguous and contested.…”

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The contradictory politics of the right to travel: mobilities, borders & tourism

2020

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The freedom of movement and right to travel are intrinsic to the growth of international tourism. Notwithstanding the inchoate nature of the right to tourism, the entitlement to travel and to pursue tourism without hindrance is firmly established in advanced capitalist societies. Moreover, the right to tourism has been recently enshrined in the 2017 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics. Tourists' ease of mobility contrasts starkly with the movements of less privileged forms of mobility that may be variously constrained by racism, xenophobia and restrictive border controls. This paper contends that rather than a mere reflection of accumulated political rights (citizenship), such unequal and differentiated mobilities are conditioned by a complex assemblage of discursive frameworks and structural forces that are played out in specific historical-geographic contexts. Accordingly, we argue that the rights associated with global tourism must be analysed in the context of the contradictory politics of global mobility, or indeed in terms of the 'mobility crisis'. This 'crisis' is one that is rooted in and shaped by the cumulative legacy of past colonial orders, global capitalism and geopolitical realignments, in addition to multi-scalar systems of governance through which borders are constituted, managed and policed.

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2020

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“…The two authors coded independently and reached a final consensus along with researcher triangulation in extensive rounds of discussion (Arnold & Fischer, 1994). Based on a Foucauldian understanding of discourse as consisting of subjects, objects, and concepts (Foucault, 1972), we follow the view of Oswick et al (2000) and Caruana and Crane (2008) to understand this discursive subject, objects, and concepts as things that are entangled and interrelated, thus making them mutually constitutive for the current discursive construction of the degrowth discourse. Our analytical focus lies on the construction of objects and subjects and how human objects are transformed into different subjects, i.e.…”

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It’s time to act! Understanding online resistance against tourism development projects

Wegerer

Nadegger

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…The democratization of tourism, travel, transport technology developments, and accessible mobilities has fostered broadmindedness and a more profound understanding of cultural pluralism and alterity. This has led organizations like UNWTO to advocate the right to travel as a human right (Gascón, 2019). However, these benefits remain deeply embedded in structural inequalities and class differences.…”

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The paradox of tourism extremes. Excesses and restraints in times of COVID-19

Milano

Koens

2021

Current Issues in Tourism

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This paper seeks to highlight underlying issues of the tourism system that have led to tourism extremes of too much or too little tourism. Five phases are recognized that reflect different ways of dealing with too much tourism over time, after which the impact of a sudden lack of tourism is investigated in light of future renewal processes. This discussion highlights the remarkable capacity of the tourism industry to adjust to rapidly changing circumstances and crises, even when these cause anguish to individuals and within societies at large. The paper thus seeks to contextualize the current discussions regarding the transformation of tourism post COVID-19. It highlights the complexity of changing a tourism that multiple stakeholders depend on or have grown accustomed to. To come to a more balanced tourism, it is necessary to not only come up with alternative visions and strategies, but also to engage with the political economy nature of tourism development. A future research agenda should therefore also discuss facets of entangled power, social exclusion, inequalities and class differences to come to new reference points of what actually constitutes a more inclusive tourism success.

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Tourism as a right: a “frivolous claim” against degrowth?

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

The contradictory politics of the right to travel: mobilities, borders & tourism

The contradictory politics of the right to travel: mobilities, borders & tourism

It’s time to act! Understanding online resistance against tourism development projects

The paradox of tourism extremes. Excesses and restraints in times of COVID-19

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